Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Page #14

CLARK:

I can get one. Why?

LOIS:

Oh. Well, the man I was going to

Lex Luthor's ball with has the flu,

and...

CLARK:

Yes?

LOIS:

...well, I was wondering if you'd

like to...

(finally)

Look, do you want to take his place

or not?

Clark has her on the ropes, decides to milk it.

CLARK:

Thanks anyway, Lois, but I thought

I'd get to bed early tonight.

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LOIS:

(jumping on him)

Are you crazy? This is _the_

social event of the season.

Everyone who's anyone will be there

and you're just lucky that I'm

being stood up-and _you_ want to go

to bed early?

CLARK:

So.... is this a date?

LOIS:

(appalled)

Date? Oh, you mean like in Kansas

where you meet my parents and then

try and give me a hickey in the

vacant lot behind the Dairy Freeze?

No, this is not a date. It's

business. I'm going to land Lex

Luthor's first one-on-one interview

if it kills me. And I will not

walk into his party unescorted.

Clark takes a few more moments to decide, infuriating Lois

no end.

CLARK:

(grudgingly)

O... kay.

LOIS:

Meet me in front of LexCorp. Nine.

Sharp,

(beat)

You're _sure_ you can get a tuxedo?

CLARK:

I'll see you there.

Lois turns and walks back to her desk, grabs her things and

exits the newsroom. Clark quickly grabs a phone book,

searches through it at super speed, finds the number,

dials...

CLARK (CONT'D)

(into phone)

Sam's Tuxedo Rentals? What time

are you open to?

(checking his watch)

Five minutes? No problem. I'll

fly.

52 OMITTED 52

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52A EXT. "ROOMS FOR RENT" BUILDING - NIGHT 52A*

Clark exits the building and walks down the street.

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53 EXT. ALLEY - NIGHT 53

Clark walks into an alley, carefully looking around to see

if it's safe to "take off." The alley is barely three feet

in width between two massive high rises. Clark begins his

vertical lift when...

HOMELESS MAN:

Hey, buddy... you got a buck?

Clark looks down toward the voice. A HOMELESS MAN is lying

in a cardboard refrigerator box. Clark digs into his

pocket, pulls out his last five dollar bill, hands it to

him. The homeless man stares at the money.

HOMELESS MAN (CONT'D)

You must be some kind of angel,

brother.

Clark nods at the man, who crawls back into his box. Then,

Clark slowly begins his vertical lift between the

buildings, rising higher and higher, faster and faster,

until he clears the highrises...

54 OMITTED 54

55 THE HOMELESS MAN 55

who has watched from below, stares upward.

HOMELESS MAN:

Some kind of angel ...

CUT TO:

56 OMITTED 56

57 OMITTED 57*

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58 INT. KENT DINING ROOM - LATER 58

The only clues to the enormity of the dinner are the number

of empty platters on the table.

CLARK *

Dinner was great, Mom. Thanks. *

JONATHAN:

More than I get these days.

(beat)

Your mother is now an _artiste_.

They all take a moment to turn toward Martha's sculpture.

MARTHA:

I call it, "Too Much, Too Soon,

Tortured Heart, Waning Moon."

(beat)

What do you think? Too cerebral?

CLARK:

No, no. It's very... imaginative.

JONATHAN:

Uh, huh.

MARTHA *

Tell me more about this woman

you're going to Lex Luthor's Ball *

with. *

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